Current technologies have led to the creation of diverse and increasingly sophisticated methods for uncovering private information. One of the most recent hacking disasters was 2017’s WannaCry ransomware attack, drawing worldwide attention to ransomware’s dangerous potential. By locking users out of their devices and holding personal or professional data “ransom” unless hostage-like demands are met within a specific period of time, WannaCry left businesses with only one copy of their data no chance to recover.

In 2016 alone, ransomware was estimated to have cost businesses $1 billion, which further emphasizes the importance of not only backing up information, but regularly testing your data-recovery process as well. You certainly wouldn’t want your backup drive to run out of disk space without anyone noticing.

This widespread and potentially devastating tactic is as old as the World Wide Web, and it’s grown increasingly sophisticated over time. Typically delivered as an urgent email, chat message, web ad, or a website designed to impersonate a genuine system or trusted organization, phishing attempts to trick its victims into clicking a malicious link or downloading an attachment.

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